#whipspider

[platycryptus]

Time-lapse of Paraphrynus cubensis amblypygids hatching from the eggsac attached to their mother’s underside and climbing on her back.

[metalrabbitcosmos]

Marney!!

I forgot how to color so when I figure that out I’ll post more..

[onenicebugperday]

Eastern whipspider (tailless whipscorpion) molting and with scorplings, Damon annulatipes

Photo 1 by dherbert and 2-4 by suncana

[ghastlyarachnid]

The joy of seeing a mutual go !! :D over me knowing about the whipspider reminds me that I really need to do that slideshow stream I've been thinking about for a while where I just talk about my favourite weird critters. Mother nature looked at bugs and went you know what? Let's get weird, I'm going to create a little guy that is SO FUNNY

[optimisticrunawayspider]

thge MULTIPLE spider people that dont stick to walls are so mad about the spider-hq being upside down in many places

[crevicedwelling]

Oh no he’s a whip scorpion I fucked up I love you whip scorpion but not as much as spiders 

you were right the first time, but common names are garbage anyway. whipscorpion more commonly refers to Uropygi aka vinegaroons and not Amblypygi, which are the tailless whipscorpions or whipspiders. but like I said common names are garbage “amblypygi” is better

[bogleech]

Finding this Harvestman and seeing its gangly feeler legs made me think.

Do you know if Harvestmen are more closely related to mites, pseudoscorpions, or whipscorpions / whipspiders? I know they’re all under the Arachnida umbrella, but I know they’re all more distantly related. The sausage-shaped body of a Harvestman reminds me of a mite, but the super-elongated antenna-like second pair of feeling legs makes me think of a whipspider.

It is believed their closest relatives are mites! But it's kind of debatable, and it varies with how you want to define "related;" their similarities are because both are such ancient arachnid groups, they're closer to how some of the very earliest arachnids looked before even modern spiders would have evolved :)

[quark-nova]

my whipspider died :(

rip snippy, i loved you

[quark-nova]

Okay but thanks so much for this post, I was thinking of getting a mantis to replace my lost whipspider (still crying about it), and now I'll double-think about it for the whole feeding thing!

I think people who want to push for more insect consumption should stop trying to push with crickets and instead should push with darkling beetle larva (mealworms, superworms) because crickets smell really bad and have kind of a fishy after taste while mealworms are just really starchy. Mealworms look tastier, smell tastier, and are tastier.

[platycryptus]

This Acanthophrynus coronatus just molted, and you can see his size compared to his discarded exuvia. He’s huge but still not full grown!

Amblypygids and some other arachnids take on that blue coloration after molting because they have copper-based blood, just like their horseshoe crab cousins. Over the next few days his pale, squishy exoskeleton will harden and return to its normal colors.

[onenicebugperday]

Female eastern whipspider with babies, Damon annulatipes, Phrynichidae, Amblypygi (tailless whip scorpions)

Photographed in South Africa by suncana

[quark-nova]

used to have a pet whipspider (they're not actual spiders but still related!), it always surprised people a little bit but yeah i'm lucky not to have heard that kind of negative comments. unfortunately she died during a molt :(

Man, THANK you for that pets post! I keep cockroaches and several spiders, and I've even had people who keep mice/reptiles/other less traditional pets talk about how they want to step on or burn my pets. It's really tiring sometimes, I love my roaches but I feel I can't share pictures of them without complete strangers talking about killing them. It's wild that people just don't get how that's incredibly rude and uncalled for??

Its ridiculous!!!!! like if someone says an animal is their pet that OBVIOUSLY MEANS THEY HAVE AN EMOTIONAL CONNECTION TO IT. if nothing else, even if you only respect humans, respect THAT HUMAN and THEIR EMOTIONS. nevermind cockroaches, spiders, everything has a place in the biosphere and has evolved into that place and therefore is necessary and "good", whatever that is. Like we can't even begin there if people refuse to respect other people. Damn. And I say this as someone with crippling arachnophobia.

[arthropodude]

#Phrynidae #Drawing #amblypygid #modernarts #arachnid #sketch #whipspider #creativeart #taillesswhipscorpion #art #subtropical #tropicalinsect #arthropod #nocturnal #amblypygi #arthropodart #entomology #entomologylovers https://www.instagram.com/p/B8BAj7bjmxA/?igshid=sllshsa3ks6k

[sabbathercio]

Os amblipígios (aranha-caiandeua ou aranha-violão e internacionalmente de whip spiders (aranha-chicote)) são frequentemente confundidos com aranhas por pessoas leigas e aparentam ser perigosos para maioria do público. Estes animais, de aparência assustadora para alguns, não apresentam qualquer ameaça para os seres humanos, visto que não possuem veneno e se comportam como predadores de insetos, outros aracnídeos e pequenos vertebrados. Os Amblypygi possuem o corpo achatado, grandes pedipalpos providos de espinhos e o primeiro par de pernas extremamente alongado e com função sensitiva. Apresentam hábitos noturnos e podem ser achados vivendo em cavernas, sob ou dentro de troncos, sob rochas, serapilheira e ambientes antrópicos, como o da foto, que apareceu aqui em casa. #biologia #biology #artropodes #whipspider https://www.instagram.com/p/CZYOBoPNJQs/?utm_medium=tumblr

[crevicedwelling]

Hi! I have a tank with crickets (originally raised to feed my whipspider) and isopods, and I usually give them fish flakes, banana, and/or bread, but most of it (especially the flakes) seems to mold. What should I do to avoid this? Would adding springtails to take care of the mold be a good idea? (and if so, should I just grab some in the park or buy from a reputable culture?) Any other solution?

buy a culture of something, (most wild springtail species aren’t as good at devouring moldy grain products like fish food and bread). I suggest entomobryomorphs, not sure what little white species of those I’ve got but they’re literally in every cup I have.

something like these should do, larger than mine but of a similar habit. wouldn’t worry too much about “reputable” since there’s hardly a wrong way to grow springtails (I suppose you wouldn’t want to be sent the wrong species, or a culture with mites in them. tho certain mites are pretty helpful too!)

other option would be to just offer less food. things will mold with springtails or not, just slower because they’ll eat the food and some but not all of the mold. solving the problem at the root is better; only feed what they’ll eat in a day or two. might also help to use a shallow food dish so the food isn’t in contact with moist substrate, and also keep the food in the driest part of the enclosure so that there isn’t water to fuel mold growth.

[xylophone888]

and id love to talk bout it :)

first lets clarify what said daughter even is. can you imagine how old all the trash around the unseen university is? decades upon thousands years of magic and organic waste compressed by own weight, soaking into the soil, sometimes going through an attempt to be cleaned but always surviving it and staying there to compress more and more and more making lawns thrive and small mammals and insects gain uncomfortable sentience? yeah, she's basically a result of said processes: a lot of trash compressed into an unrecognizable black substance and said substance gaining sentience because of all present magic, simple but deeply morporkian in nature

rincewind first met her when she just opened her eyes a few weeks ago; as he was going through trash searching for most likely thrown out leftovers or interesting rocks, one pile of it looked at him and before he could flee and leave it to be someone else's problem, it asked "so, what time is it?"...

...which didn't stop rincewind from disappearing from the scene in his usual terrified whipspider fashion and leaving the time interested being to sigh disappointedly with their zero lungs present

however, be it a result of extensive thinking, suspicion of the being not actually existing or of uncharacteristic interest, rincewind came back and the same pile asked the same question and he answered, trembling in terror at all of his well thought out plans on how said being could destroy the disc with that information; when the being arose from trash it was quite a surprise (pleasant or not isn't in question because as y'all know no surprise is pleasant for rince) for him to see it's bipedal and has the usual amount of limbs eyes and heads for an average sentient discworld inhabitant

as time passed, he appeared more around the dumpsters and slowly with each passing day felt more sure that the creature he met wasn't a threat; finally, after a month of visiting, he asked it what it is, and (freshly known of) she gave an answer of "no idea" which finally cemented the thought of her being absolutely not threatening and just a little creepy looking in rincewinds brain

after another week of meeting her everyday and bringing her either raw or half cooked potatoes from the kitchens rince helped her decide on the name "xylo" for herself after rincewinds childhood favorite of a musical instrument (yes my username is connected to it, no not a self insert even tho there's nothing bad about them, confusion clear lets sail onwards) and they collectively decided that she's roughly fourteen years old; as they bonded rincewind completely forgot about her appearing threatening to him which hasn't really happened before with anyone; he brought her food even though she doesn't need to eat, brought her a blanket even though she doesn't need to sleep and even tried to start teaching her basics of how to use magic (which she already had tons of due to her nature) which resulted in him just teaching her to read and borrowing a bunch of books on basic magic from the library when the librarian wasn't looking (later it turned out he was and he tried to throw the heaviest bananas he had at rince for moving the books out of premises without permission but that's not gonna stop a determined not-knowing-of-his-status-yet father)

one day, after xylo understood the concept of parenthood, she called rincewind "dad" — and he had no choice but to accept it and sheepishly tell her she has another dad a couple thousand miles away

when twoflower finally met her he was absolutely delighted to learn he now had three children and to none of rincewinds amusement and a lot of relief didn't even try to bother to notice how, uh, unusual his new daughter looked; the first thing he wanted to do was teach her agatean just how he taught his other daughters morporkian and he's still doing it with quite a lot of success

personality-wise xylo, even though not even a little bit biologically related to her parents, shares their personalities; she's fun to be around, kind at heart, cheerful and bubbly and also extremely cautious around any signs of danger (even though it's not necessarily possible to hurt her), noticeably mischievous and often serves as the voice of reason; her favorite number is eight and her favorite color is greenish-purple which twoflower is a tad bit disappointed about because there's no way he could buy her anything in that color as a gift

i love my aus so much i got fired from my job as the nonposting beauty

heres one of em